COLUMBUS (3/12/2024) -- Freshman
Sean Donahue tallied a season-high four points and junior
Ryan Richters made a season-best 15 saves to keep the Titans in it, but the University of Detroit Mercy ran out of gas late as the red, white and blue fell, 16-10, on Tuesday night at #RV/RV Ohio State.
Donahue had three goals for his first career hat trick to go with an assist and two ground balls. Junior
Aidan Bishop had two goals and a career-best five ground balls and graduate senior
Luke Majick added two markers.
Junior
Sean Henige had a career-tying three caused turnovers and two GB's and sophomore
Kyle Grant tied his career-high with a pair of caused turnovers and picked up a ground ball.
The Titans (0-4) saw Ohio State (5-3) score two early goals, but Donahue ended that off a pass from junior
Nolan Graalman at the 10:23 mark.
From there, Ohio State seemed like it would coast the rest of the way, taking an 8-1 lead early in the second, but UDM fired back with five straight to make it 8-6 at the break.
A win at the faceoff by junior
Billy Hart started the charge as Bishop ended it with a goal. Later on, Henige had a takeaway and that led to freshman
Sawyer Van Antwerp's second goal of the season and it was 8-3 with 8:34 left.
The Titans were applying pressure on the defense, which forced an errant pass by the OSU goalie that Bishop picked off and scored on an empty net to make it 8-4. Grant would get a caused turnover, and a penalty by the Buckeyes gave the Titans an extra-man opportunity, that was cashed in as sophomore
Drew Kessenich found Donahue to pull the squad within three, 8-5, with 4:31 remaining. UDM won the next faceoff and Majick dodged a few defenders and fired one in for a two-goal deficit at the break, as Richters made two saves in the final three minutes.
In the third, Detroit Mercy saw Richters post five more saves to keep the game within reach. Majick notched a marker to make it 10-7 and Donahue caught OSU sleeping and fed junior
Chase Mahabir, who bounced one past the netminder for an 11-8 game with just one second remaining in the quarter.
Detroit Mercy made it a two-goal contest again at 11-9 in the fourth as freshman
Lucas Goeller unleashed a rocket to the back of the net with 12:31 on the scoreboard.
Ohio State then responded with four-straight goals when Donahue recorded his hat trick with just over three minutes remaining.
Kessenich recorded two assists, while sophomore
Eoghan Mullett had a caused turnover and three ground balls.
Detroit Mercy will now prepare for the Atlantic Sun as the Titans host Mercer on Saturday, with the first faceoff set for noon.
Game Notes:
- Ohio State leads the all-time series, 12-1, including an 11-0 mark at home
- The lone win for the Titans was 9-8 in 2015 at home, the first victory in the first game of head coach Chris Kolon.
- The 13 meetings are tied for the third most against any team in school history, trailing only Bellarmine (14) and Marist (14) and tied with Canisius and Siena
- Majick now has 73 career points on 46 goals and 27 assists
- Kessenich had 10 assists last year and already has four on the season
- Donahue notched his first career goal in the opener at Marquette and added another against VMI
- Goeller registered his first assist and point against Marquette
- Bishop has scored two goals in three games on the season, while his previous high in ground balls was four at #16/14 Rutgers his last time out
- Bishop has now played in 28 games with 26 starts and has 24 goals, eight assists, 43 ground balls and nine caused turnovers
- Mullett now has a caused turnover in back-to-back games after registering at least one caused turnover in 11 games last season
- Richters made 11 saves at Marquette, 13 versus VMI and 12 at #16/14 Rutgers to start the year
- Henige also had three caused turnovers against VMI
- Grant had two caused turnovers against VMI and at Queens last season
